First, we manually removed the words ''madam speaker'', ''government'', ''budget'', ''year'' and ''people'' since they featured very large but that seemed to be more a matter of necessary repetition than significance. Common words were also automatically excluded.

In sentiment at least, the budget speech appears overwhelmingly positive. Words like ''better'', ''research'', ''more'', ''new'', ''benefit'', ''help'' and ''jobs'' all loom large. Such as ''the government will help'' and ''provide help to those most in need''.

But the word ''build'' was the top-scorer, mentioned 26 times in Mr Hockey’s budget speech. As in ''build a stronger Australia''.

''Billion'' featured high, too, with 21 mentions, largely in the context of a reduced deficit, debt and improved investment.

''Work'' was also up there, although whether that is positive or negative depends on the context, of course. This was sometimes in the form of ''the government will work'' but also in the LIberal Party rhetoric of ''those who can work, should work ... work gives a sense of self''.

As is often the case, what was left unsaid was perhaps even more revealing. The words ''environment'' and ''climate change'' did not appear in the speech once. Although the word ''carbon'' made it in there three times: ''We are abolishing the carbon tax'', ''the abolition of the carbon tax'' and ''without the carbon tax''.

If you squint you can see the word ''student'' in the bottom right buried between ''future'' and ''increase''. The implication of which will not be lost on students, since universities have been given the freedom to set their own fees.

''Mining'' was also low-key, with only five mentions in the Treasurer’s speech. Although, admittedly, that’s a 500 per cent increase on the number of times Wayne Swan said the word in last year’s budget speech.

The word ''foreign'' only appeared twice, matching a budget in which the government slashed foreign aid by $7.9 billion over five years.